When comparing Taiga vs Twist, the Slant community recommends Taiga for most people. In the question“What is the best task management software for small teams?”Taiga is ranked 5th while Twist is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Taiga is:

User stories can be organized in both Kanban and Scrum task management systems.

Supports both Kanban and Scrum modes

Pro

Free and open source

Pro

Simple to use

Pro

Comprehensive Agile software development toolset

Taiga tries offering a complete Agile software development toolset. It includes complete solutions for issue tracking, videoconferencing, documentation (in the form of a wiki) and either a backlog or a Kanban board for managing user stories.

Pro

Built-in wiki

Each project has a wiki. It has Markdown support as well as a WYSIWYG editor.

Pro

Built-in issue tracking

Taiga has built-in issue tracking tools. The issues can be organized by user-defined type, severity, priority, creation date, assignee, creator, tags as well as filtered by subject. Taiga can also integrate with GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket.

Pro

Migration from RedMine

Pro

Export/Import feature

You can extract all your data from one Taiga instance and move it to another one. You can read more here.

Pro

Built-in video conferencing tools

Integrates with either AppearIn or Talky to provide a video conferencing solution.

Pro

Guest roles

Guest members can be added that have access to specific channels; ideal for individuals outside the team.

Pro

Focused collaboration

Channels are neatly divided into topic threads, focusing the discussions.

Cons

Con

No Kanban metrics

Taiga is said to support Kanban but it does not generate any of the usual Kanban metrics (cycle time, lead time) or graph (Cumulated Flow Diagram).

Con

Can be overwhelming at first

Taiga presents users with a lot of information and functionality right from the beginning with little guidance. Figuring how stuff works might take a bit.

Con

Too much functionality for small projects

While it's possible to disable any unwanted features (modules), the amount of functionality that's present might be more than a small, short-term project needs.

Con

Only 1 month of search for free

The free tier only searches the last 1 month.

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